Alexander hamilton by chernow
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Book Review: Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton. (aff.) New York: Penguin Books, pages.
This book could be “Exhibit A” for why inom love biographies. Ron Chernow is an excellent historian and an engaging writer. He has written several of my favorite biographies, including books on J.P. Morgan (House of Morgan) and John Rockefeller (Titan). He writes an adequate number of pages, researches extensively, and includes plenty of brilliant turns of phrases. Finally, Chernow picked a character who fryst vatten both historically significant and personally fascinating.
Alexander Hamilton fryst vatten considered one of the Founding Fathers of amerika, perhaps the only one of the famous founders who did not ultimately become president. I have read biographies on George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, and Hamilton regularly appears in those narratives, rarely in a positive light. Only George Washington seemed to genuinely admire his talents,
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Alexander Hamilton
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Ron Chernow, whom The New York Times has called “ as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we’ve seen in decades,” brings to life the man who was the principal designer of the federal government, the catalyst for the emergence of the two-party system, the patron saint of Wall Street, and the object of ardent idolatry as well as vehement loathing by his peers. Alexander Hamilton was arguably the most important figure in American history who never attained the presidency, but he had a far more lasting impact than many who did. An illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, Hamilton rose with stunning speed to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp, a battlefield hero, a member of the Constitutional Convention, the leading author of The Federalist Papers, and head of the Federalist Party. As the first treasury secretary, he forged America’s tax and budget systems, Customs Service, Coast Guard, and central bank. Chernow’s Alex
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Alexander Hamilton
The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America.
According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.”
Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time.
“To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.” Chernow here recounts Ha